WEN: End of Year WEN Breakfast

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Dec 17, 2024, 7:30 am

The Women in Economics Network in Victoria is delighted to invite you to a final breakfast catch up to wrap up 2024.

WEN VIC Breakfast Event: Gatekeepers and norms: barriers to achieving gender equality

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Dec 12, 2024, 8:30 am

The Women in Economics Network (WEN) Victoria branch invites you to join us for breakrast on Thursday 12 December to explore some of the barriers to achieving gender equality. Join Dr Marina Gertsberg from Melbourne University and Sruthi Srikanthan from Deloitte Access Economics as they discuss the impacts of biased gatekeepers and gender norms in achieving gender equality.

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Green Innovation and Climate Policies, David Hémous - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7:00 pm

From: Central Council

Climate change already has a negative impact on the environment and our societies, and this impact will get worse over the course of this century.

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Zoning and housing supply: empirics in search of a theory

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Nov 27, 2024, 5:30 pm

Dr Helm surveys and appraises theories of new housing supply in order to help interpret the empirical record in relation to zoning, outlining open questions in the search for a coherent theory of supply. 

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2024 Freebairn Public Lecture - Central Bank Reviews: An International Comparison

Event Type: Wide/Public Interest

Date: Thursday Nov 21, 2024, 5:00 pm

2024 Freebairn Public Lecture - Central Bank Reviews: An International Comparison

Why are central banks reviewed? Independence requires accountability which requires evaluation. From the Svennson Review of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 2001 to the Bernanke Review of the Bank of England in 2024, most central banks in developed countries have been reviewed, but the formats and frameworks differ. This lecture will discuss significant evaluations of central banks internationally. 

ESA YP End of Year Event - Diminishing Returns Pub Crawl

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Nov 20, 2024, 5:30 pm

Join the ESA Young Professionals for our end of year event as we seek to pre-empt the Christmas rush of events and celebrations.  This year, we’ll be going on a Diminishing Returns Pub Crawl – what does that mean? 

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End of Year Event and AGM 2024

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024, 5:30 pm

The Economic Society is looking forward to getting together in person, and promoting connection among our members and those interested in contemporary economic issues and debate.

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Evaluation Methods Workshop

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Nov 19, 2024, 9:00 am

The Economic Society of Australia, Victorian Branch, warmly invites you to a one-day workshop focused on two key methodologies for policy evaluation.

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Eminent Speaker Series - Prof. Dr. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Monday Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

Industrial policy and competition policy

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Women in Economics Network AGM - ONLINE ONLY

Date: Friday Nov 15, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The National WEN Committee will hold its AGM on 15 November 2024 from 12.00pm-1.30pm (AEDT) via Zoom, and invites all WEN Members to register via the link below. The meeting is an opportunity to celebrate another busy year across WEN Branches and nationally, and we are excited that the Hon Allegra Spender MP will join us to provide her insights on the economic challenges facing Australia.

Generative AI, AI Risks and the Changing Nature of Work in Australia

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Nov 12, 2024, 5:30 pm

Dr. Emmanuelle Walkowiak will present a novel perspective on how generative AI and AI risk exposure drive job transformation.

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Eminent Speaker Series: Susan Athey - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Nov 8, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

NEW TIME - NOW FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER AT 12.00PM AEDT (SYD/CBR/MEL)

Identifying Challenges and Improving Outcomes for Labor Market Transitions Using Machine Learning

This talk will review several recent papers that focus on labor market transitions.  The first project analyzes worker resilience in response to layoffs, using administrative data from Sweden.

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2024 Griffin Economic History Public Lecture - The Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Enlightenment

Event Type: Wide/Public Interest

Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 5:30 pm

2024 Griffin Economic History Public Lecture - The Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Enlightenment

Europe in the eighteenth century witnessed the two great transformations: the Industrial Revolution, which triggered modern economic growth, and the Enlightenment, which created modern liberal democracies and a commitment to human rights. Were the two related? Professor Joel Mokyr will argue that there were many links between the two and that without the Enlightenment sustained economic growth in the West may have fizzled out. Instead, the two transformations amplified and reinforced one another.

Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates in Economics in Australia - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The discipline of economics encompasses broad skill-sets with diverse applications in employment markets and industries. Studies of labour market prospects for economics graduates are relatively dated particularly in the light of developments such as declining interest in economics in high school and university.  Join the discussion with our guest speaker, Professor Ian Li, Curtin University.

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WEN Mentoring Retreat 2024

Date: Wednesday Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 am

From: Central Council

The Women in Economics Network, part of the Economics Society of Australia, is hosting the 2024 Women in Economics Retreat as an in-person event, to be held from Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 November at The Hilton, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump, Mr Biden and Another Mr Trump

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Oct 30, 2024, 5:30 pm

Professor Garnaut and the late Max Corden co-authored "The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump" , published in the Australian Economic Review.  In Max Corden's honour, Professor Garnaut's 2023 Corden Lecture "The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump and Mr Biden" continued the discussion, applying the approach that Max took to analysing economic problems to one big question: should Australia emulate Mr Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and the policies in which it is embedded?  

On the cusp of the next presidential election and following the 29 October 2024 release of his new book "Let’s Tax Carbon: and Other Ideas for a Better Australia", Professor Garnaut speaks on the prospects of a return of Trump to Presidency.

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Making gambling a better, safer bet

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Oct 22, 2024, 5:30 pm

Join Elizabeth Baldwin for a discussion about how we can prevent gambling harm by reducing exposure, introducing mandatory pre-commitment, and improving support services.

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The impact of Industrial Relations changes on workers – do economists agree? - ONLINE ONLY

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Friday Oct 18, 2024, 12:00 pm

From: Central Council

The last few years have seen significant legislation changes in the area of industrial relations. The prior decade also saw significant changes in firms’ hiring practices, and an explosion of platform work, considered by some to be a loophole in current labour legislation.

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Causal inference, behavioural insights and experimental methods in economics: An introduction

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Oct 15, 2024, 5:30 pm

Join Professor Dmitry Ryvkin and Qin Wu as they examine the differences between behavioural and experimental economics, focusing on their roles in understanding economic decision-making. 

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ESA Young Professionals - Books, Bevs & Bites

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Thursday Oct 3, 2024, 6:00 pm

The Economic Society of Australia, Victoria’s Young Professional Network, invites you to our upcoming book club event.

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AI and Industry

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Oct 2, 2024, 5:30 pm

Professor Holden and Louise McGrath will discuss the application of AI solutions for Australian industry and some of the challenges of AI adoption that the industry broadly faces.

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WEN: Informal Drinks Catch-up

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Sep 18, 2024, 5:30 am

The Women in Economics Network in Victoria is delighted to invite you for an informal after work drinks meet-up.

Freedom to Choose Conference 2024

Event Type: Wide/Public Interest

Date: Tuesday Sep 17, 2024, 8:30 am

The Path to Freedom: The Enduring Relevance of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom

This year’s Freedom to Choose (FTC) conference is the 14^th in a sequence of annual one day conferences devoted to exploring the effectiveness of free-market policies. FTC is supported by the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation and hosted by the University of Notre Dame Australia. FTC 2024 is designed primarily for the benefit of undergraduate, honours, and postgraduate students, but all interested parties are welcome to attend.

WEN VIC: In conversation: Integrating environmental and economic objectives with public policy challenges

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Wednesday Aug 21, 2024, 5:45 pm

The Women in Economics Network (WEN) Victoria branch invites you to an event next Wednesday 21 August at 6pm to explore the environmental policy priorities that Australia should focus on.

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How an anthropologist approaches economics and digital finance

Event Type: ESA Event

Date: Tuesday Aug 20, 2024, 5:30 pm

Professor Janet Roitman illustrates how financial value is generated by a nexus of mobile telecommunications operators, mobile money issuers, and commercial banks with reference to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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